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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LIM'PID, a. [L. limpidus.] Pure; clear; transparent; as a limpid stream.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: clear and bright; "the liquid air of a spring morning"; "eyes shining with a liquid luster"; "limpid blue eyes" [syn: liquid, limpid]
2: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent crystal" [syn: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent]
3: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: French or Latin; French limpide, from Latin limpidus, perhaps from lympha water — more at lymph Date: 1613 1. a. marked by transparency ; pellucid <limpid streams> b. clear and simple in style <limpid prose> 2. absolutely serene and untroubled Synonyms: see clear • limpidity noun • limpidly adverb • limpidness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (of water, eyes, etc.) clear, transparent. 2 (of writing) clear and easily comprehended. Derivatives: limpidity n. limpidly adv. limpidness n. Etymology: F limpide or L limpidus, perh. rel. to LYMPH

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Limpid Lim"pid (-p[i^]d), a. [L. limpidus; akin to Gr. la`mpein to shine: cf. F. limpide. Cf. Lamp.] Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream. Springs which were clear, fresh, and limpid. --Woodward. Syn: Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal; translucent; bright.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that something is limpid, you mean that it is very clear and transparent. (LITERARY) ...limpid blue eyes. ...limpid rock-pools. = translucent ADJ 2. If you describe speech, writing, or music as limpid, you like it because it is clear, simple and flowing. (LITERARY) He thought the speech a model of its kind, limpid and unaffected. ADJ [approval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Clear, lucid, pure, bright, transparent, pellucid, crystal, crystalline, translucent.

Moby Thesaurus

Attic, Ciceronian, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, coherent, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy, elegant, explicit, express, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, light-pervious, loud and clear, lucid, luminous, natural, neat, nonopaque, peekaboo, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, refined, restrained, revealing, round, see-through, sheer, simple, straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, well-defined